Gloria Swanson
Born: 1899-03-27 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1983-04-04
Known For: Acting
Biography
Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Acadamy Award in the Best Actress catagory. In 1929, Swanson successfully transitioned to talkies with The Trespasser. However, personal problems and changing tastes saw her popularity wane during the 1930s when she moved into Theater and TV. Today she is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a faded silent film start, in the critically aclaimed film Sunset Boulevard (1950). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gloria Swanson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2021
- Boulevard! A Hollywood Story as Self (archive footage)
- This Is Francis X. Bushman as Self (Archive Footage)
2012
2009
2007
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2004
- Los Angeles Plays Itself as Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd (archive footage)
1995
1986
- Marilyn Monroe as archive footage
1980
- Hollywood as Self
- Men Who Rate a 10 as Self
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
1974
- Airport 1975 as Gloria Swanson
- The Great Debate as Self
- Killer Bees as Madame Maria von Bohlen
1973
- The Age of Ballyhoo as Narrator
1971
- V.I.P. Schaukel as Self
1970
- Brasileiros em Hollywood as Sef (archive footage)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
1964
- The Hollywood Palace as Self
1963
- Burke's Law as Venus Hekate Walsh
- Kraft Suspense Theatre as Mrs. Charlotte Heaton
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mrs. Daniels
- The Beverly Hillbillies as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Julia Colton
- Ben Casey as Victoria Hoffman
- Straightaway as Lorraine Carrington
- The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)
1960
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood as Self
- When Comedy Was King as edited from 'Teddy at the Throttle' (archive footage)
1959
- The Big Party as Self
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- The Steve Allen Show as Self
- Nero's Mistress as Agrippina
1953
1952
- This Is Your Life as Self
- Three for Bedroom C as Ann Haven
1950
- What's My Line? as Self
- Sunset Boulevard as Norma Desmond
- The Golden Twenties as Self (archive footage)
1949
- Down Memory Lane as The Reluctant Bride
1948
- The Ed Sullivan Show as Self
1946
- Dear Miss Gloria as Miss Gloria
1943
- Happy Times and Jolly Moments as (archive footage)
1941
- Father Takes a Wife as Leslie Collier Osborne
1934
- Music in the Air as Frieda Hotzfelt
- The Camera Speaks as Self (archive footage)
1933
- Perfect Understanding as Judy Rogers
- Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Film Parade as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1932
1931
- Indiscreet as Geraldine 'Gerry' Trent
- The House That Shadows Built as (archive footage)
- Round About Hollywood as Self
- Tonight or Never as Nella Vago
1930
- What a Widow! as Tamarind Brook
1929
- The Trespasser as Marion Donnell
- Queen Kelly as Kitty Kelly / Queen Kelly
1928
- Sadie Thompson as Sadie Thompson
1927
- The Love of Sunya as Sunya Ashling
1926
- Fine Manners as Orchid Murphy
- The Untamed Lady as St. Clair Van Tassel
1925
- Stage Struck as Jennie Hagen
- The Coast of Folly as Joyce Gathway / Nadine Gathway
- Madame Sans-Gêne as Catherina Hubscher
1924
- Manhandled as Tessie McGuire
- The Humming Bird as Toinette
- Wages of Virtue as Carmelita
- Her Love Story as Princess Marie
- A Society Scandal as Marjorie Colbert
1923
- Hollywood as Gloria Swanson
- Zaza as Zaza
- Bluebeard's 8th Wife as Mona deBriac
- Prodigal Daughters as Swifty Forbes
1922
- Beyond the Rocks as Theodora Fitzgerald
- The Impossible Mrs. Bellew as Betty Bellew
- A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- Her Husband’s Trademark as Lois Miller
- My American Wife as Natalie Chester
- Her Gilded Cage as Suzanne Ornoff
1921
- The Great Moment as Nada Pelham / Nadine Pelham
- Under the Lash as Deborah Krillet
- The Affairs of Anatol as Vivian Spencer (Anatol's wife)
- Don't Tell Everything as Marian Westover
1920
- Why Change Your Wife? as Beth Gordon
- Something to Think About as Ruth Anderson
1919
- Male and Female as Lady Mary Lasenby
- Don't Change Your Husband as Leila Porter
- For Better, for Worse as Sylvia Norcross
1918
- The Secret Code as Sally Carter Rand
- Her Decision as Phyllis Dunbar
- Shifting Sands as Marcia Grey
- Station Content as Kitty Manning
- Every Woman's Husband as Edith Emerson
- You Can't Believe Everything as Patricia Reynolds
- Wife or Country as Sylvia Hamilton
- Society for Sale as Phylis Clyne
1917
- The Pullman Bride as The Pullman Bride
- Dangers of a Bride
- Teddy at the Throttle as Gloria Dawn
- Whose Baby? as The Wife
- Baseball Madness as The Heiress
- The Sultan's Wife as Gloria
1916
- Hearts and Sparks as Gloria - Bobby's Sweetheart
- A Social Cub as Gloria
- A Dash of Courage as The Prominent Citizen
- The Nick of Time Baby as The Blacksmith's Daughter
- Haystacks and Steeples as Gloria - the Society Girl
- The Danger Girl as The Danger Girl - Reggie's Madcap Sister
- Sunshine
1915
- His New Job as Stenographer (uncredited)
- The Ambition of the Baron as Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Misjudged Mr. Hartley as Maid
- The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket as Farina, Elvira's Daughter
- The Broken Pledge as Gloria
- Sweedie Goes to College as Betty - College Girl
- At the End of a Perfect Day as Hands Bouquet to Holmes
- The Fable of the Syndicate Lover as Department Store Customer (uncredited)
- The Romance of an American Duchess as Minor Role (uncredited)
1914
- The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times as One of the Club Girls (uncredited)